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Mike Huckabee, Sore Loser

Posted on | February 22, 2010 | 40 Comments

He got 4% in the CPAC straw poll — which was won by Ron Paul — and suddenly decides that a gathering of 10,000 conservative activists is a bad thing:

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee blasted the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday as outdated, nearly corrupt and unrepresentative of the conservative movement. . . .
“CPAC has becoming increasingly more libertarian and less Republican over the last years, one of the reasons I didn’t go this year,” Huckabee said in an interview with Fox News, where he is a paid analyst and has his own show. . . .
Huckabee said the rise of the tea party movement had “taken all of the oxygen out of the room,” rendering the venerable conference far less relevant than it had been in previous years.
“Where CPAC was historically the event, the tea parties are having their own events all over the country and a lot more truly grassroots people are getting involved because of the tea parties,” said the former governor.
And, goaded by Fox Host Geraldo Rivera, Huckabee went even further.
“Because of the way that it solicits sponsors, it’s almost becomes a pay-for-play,” he said. “It’s kind of like, who will pay money to be able to be a sponsor and get time in the program. That’s one of the things that has hurt its credibility in the last couple of years.”

Heh. So now that he’s got his own Fox News show, Huckabee’s too good for CPAC? I’m thinking of calling Lisa De Pasquale and suggesting that next year’s CPAC feature the Mike Huckabee Award for Outstanding Douchebaggery.

UPDATE: Speaking of which, apparently some douchebag at CPAC was trying to impress chicks by impersonating Glenn Reynolds. I’m probably not tall enough to impersonate the professor, but you’ll know if I try it when you see a guy’s blog post titled, “Why Was Instapundit Looking Down My Girlfriend’s Blouse?”

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40 Responses to “Mike Huckabee, Sore Loser”

  1. Red
    February 22nd, 2010 @ 3:02 pm

    “CPAC has becoming increasingly more libertarian and less Republican over the last years,…”
    He says that like it’s a bad thing.
    “…one of the reasons I didn’t go this year,” Huckabee said in an interview with Fox News,”
    And one of the reasons I won’t vote for him.

  2. victoria_29
    February 22nd, 2010 @ 3:11 pm

    I have to wonder if he was asked to be a speaker or not. If he wasn’t that might very well be the reason …”I didn’t go this year”

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    February 22nd, 2010 @ 3:13 pm

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  4. Thrasymachus
    February 22nd, 2010 @ 3:25 pm

    A guy who helped get four cops killed should probably STFU.

    Seriously, Huckabee is a big part of what’s wrong with the Republicans. Other than the abortion thing he is liberal enough to be a Deomcratic congressman from Massachussetts.

  5. Old Rebel
    February 22nd, 2010 @ 3:33 pm

    The Huckster is a Neocon in Southern clothing — pro-war, pro-amnesty, and quick to accuse opponents of open borders as “racist.”

    We’ve had enough of fake conservatives who only mislead us.

  6. Arizona Joe
    February 22nd, 2010 @ 4:17 pm

    The Huckster’s days are over. He squadered his chance by finger pointing and name calling. Child in adult clothing. I am voting for real change in my local upcoming election. McCain is trying to get re-elcted and there are a whole host of local and state seats up for grabs. Go to the polls and vote out all the self-righteous amoung us. Give the boot to all the so-called representatives that never bothered to show up to vote. I for one am fed up and ready to try anything. The current lot are all corrupt. My district house representative missed nearly 2/3 of all the votes. Rich Crandall has no excuses. His self interest is a cancer to our state and community.

  7. chuck cross
    February 22nd, 2010 @ 4:17 pm

    Huckabee is right. Let’s get back to the 2006 Republican base. That worked out swell. All those crazy kids running around waving the Constitution in my face, pfft.

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  9. Terry
    February 22nd, 2010 @ 4:37 pm

    Robert Stacy McCain, you seem to be an expert in douchebaggery.he he he
    Great post btw.

  10. Robert Stacy McCain
    February 22nd, 2010 @ 5:17 pm

    Robert Stacy McCain, you seem to be an expert in douchebaggery

    After 12 years covering D.C., I know douchebags like Jane Goodall knows lowland gorillas.

  11. pH
    February 22nd, 2010 @ 5:30 pm

    OK, Huck is a washed-up, no-good, compassion-obsessed big-gov’t type. I don’t like him, and I wouldn’t vote for him (although I did vote for him as the least of 3 evils over McCain & Paul in the Texas primary in 2008). That being said, in the light of RON FRICKIN PAUL winning the straw poll at CPAC, the contention that CPAC has become “too libertarian” cuts rather profoundly…

    The LAST thing we need is for the more-decent political party to be taken over by Pauls and Medinas…conspiracy-minded amateur politicos with nothing to show for besides dissertations on the JEWISH NAU-CABAL make Huckabee seem like the second coming of Reagan indeed…

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  13. Third Coast
    February 22nd, 2010 @ 8:08 pm

    Ron “freakin” Paul, give me a break. With all due respect, Huckabee has a point.

  14. Huey
    February 22nd, 2010 @ 8:28 pm

    So… Ron Paul’s mega-win is meaningless, but Huck’s 4% is meaningful?

    Need a scorecard….

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  16. Rusty
    February 22nd, 2010 @ 9:16 pm

    CPAC has becoming increasingly more libertarian and less Republican over the last years…

    And republicans have become increasingly irresponsible and less conservative over the last years.

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  19. Steve Poling
    February 22nd, 2010 @ 11:36 pm

    The Huckster has been suffering from hypoxia since the former governor of Alaska first hit the national stage. These two former governors demonstrate that one can be either: 1) an evangelical Christian and a fabian socialist, or 2) an evangelical Christian with strong libertarian leanings. Frankly, I prefer Mrs. Palin.

  20. MacAoidh
    February 23rd, 2010 @ 1:11 am

    Mike Huckabee has a demonstrable penchant for petty and unbecoming actions like the CPAC thing over the weekend. His refusal to work with the Club For Growth is an example; his appeal to religious bigotry in order to derail Romney and thus hand the 2008 nomination to McCain is another.

    I have no use for Huck. Huck sucks.

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  22. mariner
    February 23rd, 2010 @ 1:45 pm

    When you write a post about someone looking down your girlfriend’s blouse, Instapundit’s response will be the least of your worries.

  23. Honey
    February 23rd, 2010 @ 10:11 pm

    I am wondering if Huck is miffed because Romney spoke at CPAC, as well as Glenn Beck. We know that Huck doesn’t like Romney and I get a feeling he doesn’t like Beck.

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